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Learning Standards met by Our Programs


It's not always easy to go on a fun and exciting field trip and meet Learning Standards for your class.  That's why we've taken the time to develop our programs with new BC Curriculum in mind.  

Note the program that you're interested in and scroll below to see which LS's it covers for your class.

In School Programs Goldstream Spring            Programs

Goldstream Fall (Salmon) Programs   

Goldstream Winter (Eagles) Programs

In Defense of Bats (K-2)

Who's Whooo (3-5)

Squids in the Hall (4-7)

Life in a Log (K/1)

Froggy Frog World (2/3)

Tides & Tidal Creatures(3/4/5)

Who wants to be a Salmon Heir((5/6/7)

 

Bodacious Bugs(K/1)

Forest Explorers (K/1)

Stop! It's Beaver Time (2/3)

Froggy Frog World(2/3)

May the Forest be with you(2/3)

Prospector Penny(Gr.4)

Un-beaverable (Gr. 4)

Look at that...a Habitat! Gr. 4

Squids in the Hall (4-9)

 

Salmon Storybook (K-3)

Chum Salmon Cycle (4-8)

Salmon Forest (4-9)

 

 

Eddie the Eagle in the Estuary (K-7)

 

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Night Eyes (2-8)

Sleeping with the Salmon (2-8)

 

In Defense of Bats Gr. K-2 

Life in a Log Gr. K/1


Kindergarten

LS's: Science- Describe basic needs and adaptations of local plants and animals. Weather changes and there are seasonal changes. Living things make changes to accomodate daily and seasonal changes. Social Studies - Will know people, places and events in the local community and know rights, roles and responsibilities of individuals and groups. Physical Education – Demonstrate caring behaviour in groups and how to participate in different types of physical activities. Demonstrate proper technique for performing specific locomotor movement - Identify safety; follow rules and directions when participating in activities. English Language Arts – Demonstrate oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.

Grade 1 LS’s: Science - Classify living and non-living things. Name local plants and animals. Name the structural features of living things in the local environment.  Know the behavioural adaptations of animals in the local community. Social Studies - Will know people, places and events in the local community and know rights, roles and responsibilities of individuals and groups. Understand the relationships between community and its environment.  Know natural and human-made features of the local environment. Physical Education – Demonstrate caring behaviour in groups and how to participate in different types of physical activities. Demonstrate proper technique for performing specific locomotor movement - Identify safety; follow rules and directions when participating in activities. English Language Arts – Demonstrate oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 2

LS’s: - Science - Classify and compare the lifecycles of different organisms.  Compare the similarities and differences between offspring and adults.  Understand local living things have lifecycles and are adapted to their ecosystems including watersheds. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between people and the local environment. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded).- Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.

Grade 3 LS’s: - Science – Understand that living things are diverse, can be grouped and interact with their ecosystems.  Examine the biodiversity I the local environment. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between humans and their environments. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded). Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 4 LS’s: Science - Analyze that all living things sense and respond to their environment. Describe how motions of Earth and the moon cause observable patterns that affect living and non-living systems. Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings. Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 5 LS’s: Science – Analyze how multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact with their environment.  Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings.- Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Question what they hear and read to further enhance their understanding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who's Whooooo? (3/4/5)


Kindergarten LS's: Science- Describe basic needs and adaptations of local plants and animals. Weather changes and there are seasonal changes. Living things make changes to accomodate daily and seasonal changes. Social Studies - Will know people, places and events in the local community and know rights, roles and responsibilities of individuals and groups. Physical Education – Demonstrate caring behaviour in groups and how to participate in different types of physical activities. Demonstrate proper technique for performing specific locomotor movement - Identify safety; follow rules and directions when participating in activities. English Language Arts – Demonstrate oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 1 LS’s: Science - Classify living and non-living things. Name local plants and animals. Name the structural features of living things in the local environment.  Know the behavioural adaptations of animals in the local community. Social Studies - Will know people, places and events in the local community and know rights, roles and responsibilities of individuals and groups. Understand the relationships between community and its environment.  Know natural and human-made features of the local environment. Physical Education – Demonstrate caring behaviour in groups and how to participate in different types of physical activities. Demonstrate proper technique for performing specific locomotor movement - Identify safety; follow rules and directions when participating in activities. English Language Arts – Demonstrate oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 2 LS’s: - Science - Classify and compare the lifecycles of different organisms.  Compare the similarities and differences between offspring and adults.  Understand local living things have lifecycles and are adapted to their ecosystems including watersheds. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between people and the local environment. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded).- Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 3 LS’s: - Science – Understand that living things are diverse, can be grouped and interact with their ecosystems.  Examine the biodiversity I the local environment. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between humans and their environments. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded). Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 4 LS’s: Science - Analyze that all living things sense and respond to their environment. Describe how motions of Earth and the moon cause observable patterns that affect living and non-living systems. Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings.- Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 5 LS’s: Science – Analyze how multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact with their environment.  Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings.- Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Question what they hear and read to further enhance their understanding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Kindergarten LS's: Science- Describe basic needs and adaptations of local plants and animals. Weather changes and there are seasonal changes. Living things make changes to accomodate daily and seasonal changes. Social Studies - Will know people, places and events in the local community and know rights, roles and responsibilities of individuals and groups. Physical Education – Demonstrate caring behaviour in groups and how to participate in different types of physical activities. Demonstrate proper technique for performing specific locomotor movement - Identify safety; follow rules and directions when participating in activities. English Language Arts – Demonstrate oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 1 LS’s: Science - Classify living and non-living things. Name local plants and animals. Name the structural features of living things in the local environment.  Know the behavioural adaptations of animals in the local community. Social Studies - Will know people, places and events in the local community and know rights, roles and responsibilities of individuals and groups. Understand the relationships between community and its environment.  Know natural and human-made features of the local environment. Physical Education – Demonstrate caring behaviour in groups and how to participate in different types of physical activities. Demonstrate proper technique for performing specific locomotor movement - Identify safety; follow rules and directions when participating in activities. English Language Arts – Demonstrate oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 2 LS’s: - Science - Classify and compare the lifecycles of different organisms.  Compare the similarities and differences between offspring and adults.  Understand local living things have lifecycles and are adapted to their ecosystems including watersheds. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between people and the local environment. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded). Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 3 LS’s: - Science – Understand that living things are diverse, can be grouped and interact with their ecosystems.  Examine the biodiversity I the local environment. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between humans and their environments. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded). Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 4 LS’s: Science - Analyze that all living things sense and respond to their environment. Describe how motions of Earth and the moon cause observable patterns that affect living and non-living systems. Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings.- Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 5 Science - Analyze how different organisms adapt to their environments.Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings.- Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity.Language Arts – Listen, and view for specific purposes.- Use strategies, including asking and developing questions to further develop understanding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Squids in the Hall (4-9)


Grade 4 LS’s: Science - Analyze that all living things sense and respond to their environment. Describe how motions of Earth and the moon cause observable patterns that affect living and non-living systems. Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings.- Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 5 LS’s: Science – Analyze how multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact with their environment.  Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings.- Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Question what they hear and read to further enhance their understanding.
Grade 6 LS’s: Science – Analyze how multicellular organisms rely on their internal systems that enable them to survive, reproduce and interact with their environment.  Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings. Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities. Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Use questioning, predicting, summarizing, and inferring to accomplish specific purposes for viewing and listening.  Use information they have heard or viewed to develop questions and activities that will extend their understanding. Locate and interpret details to answer specific questions or complete tasks. Demonstrate a willingness to assume a variety of roles in group interactions.
Grade 7 LS’s: Science - Analyze how organisms have evolved over time as well as their survival needs Understand that the diversity and survival of living things has changed over time, by natural selection. Physical Education – Demonstrate/apply safe procedures for specific physical activities. English Language Arts – Interpret details in simple and direct illustrations and other required representations.- Share the responsibility for the effective functioning of groups.- Encourage others to participate.
Grade 8 LS's: Science - Interpret characteristics of life processes, including photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Physical Education – Demonstrate/apply safe procedures for specific physical activities.English Language Arts – Interpret details in simple and direct illustrations and other required representations.  Share the responsibility for the effective functioning of groups. Encourage others to participate.
Grade 9 LS’s: - Science -  Analyze the different matter cycles and the biotic and abiotic components of a variety of ecosystems. Physical Education – Demonstrate/apply safe procedures for specific physical activities.English Language Arts – Interpret details in simple and direct illustrations and other required representations. Share the responsibility for the effective functioning of groups.
 
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Tides & Tidal Creatures (3/4/5)


Kindergarten LS's: Science- Describe basic needs and adaptations of local plants and animals. Weather changes and there are seasonal changes. Living things make changes to accomodate daily and seasonal changes. Social Studies - Will know people, places and events in the local community and know rights, roles and responsibilities of individuals and groups. Physical Education – Demonstrate caring behaviour in groups and how to participate in different types of physical activities. Demonstrate proper technique for performing specific locomotor movement - Identify safety; follow rules and directions when participating in activities. English Language Arts – Demonstrate oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 1 LS’s: Science - Classify living and non-living things. Name local plants and animals. Name the structural features of living things in the local environment.  Know the behavioural adaptations of animals in the local community. Social Studies - Will know people, places and events in the local community and know rights, roles and responsibilities of individuals and groups. Understand the relationships between community and its environment.  Know natural and human-made features of the local environment. Physical Education – Demonstrate caring behaviour in groups and how to participate in different types of physical activities. Demonstrate proper technique for performing specific locomotor movement - Identify safety; follow rules and directions when participating in activities. English Language Arts – Demonstrate oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 2 LS’s: - Science - Classify and compare the lifecycles of different organisms.  Compare the similarities and differences between offspring and adults.  Understand local living things have lifecycles and are adapted to their ecosystems including watersheds. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between people and the local environment. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded).- Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 3 LS’s: - Science – Understand that living things are diverse, can be grouped and interact with their ecosystems.  Examine the biodiversity I the local environment. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between humans and their environments. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded). Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


   
Grade 4 LS’s: Science - Analyze that all living things sense and respond to their environment. Describe how motions of Earth and the moon cause observable patterns that affect living and non-living systems. Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings.- Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 5 LS’s: Science – Analyze how multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact with their environment.  Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings.- Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities.- Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Question what they hear and read to further enhance their understanding.
Grade 6 LS’s: Science – Analyze how multicellular organisms rely on their internal systems that enable them to survive, reproduce and interact with their environment.  Physical Education – Identify opportunities for activity in a variety of settings. Demonstrate an ability to participate safely in specific activities. Demonstrate leadership in selected activity. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Use questioning, predicting, summarizing, and inferring to accomplish specific purposes for viewing and listening.  Use information they have heard or viewed to develop questions and activities that will extend their understanding. Locate and interpret details to answer specific questions or complete tasks. Demonstrate a willingness to assume a variety of roles in group interactions.
Grade 7 LS’s: Science - Analyze how organisms have evolved over time as well as their survival needs Understand that the diversity and survival of living things has changed over time, by natural selection. Physical Education – Demonstrate/apply safe procedures for specific physical activities. English Language Arts – Interpret details in simple and direct illustrations and other required representations.- Share the responsibility for the effective functioning of groups.- Encourage others to participate.
Grade 8  LS's: Science - Interpret characteristics of life processes, including photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Physical Education – Demonstrate/apply safe procedures for specific physical activities.English Language Arts – Interpret details in simple and direct illustrations and other required representations.  Share the responsibility for the effective functioning of groups. Encourage others to participate.
 
Grade 9 LS’s: - Science -  Analyze the different matter cycles and the biotic and abiotic components of a variety of ecosystems. Physical Education – Demonstrate/apply safe procedures for specific physical activities.English Language Arts – Interpret details in simple and direct illustrations and other required representations. Share the responsibility for the effective functioning of groups.
   

Froggy Frog World (2/3)


   
Grade 2 LS’s: - Science - Classify and compare the lifecycles of different organisms.  Compare the similarities and differences between offspring and adults.  Understand local living things have lifecycles and are adapted to their ecosystems including watersheds. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between people and the local environment. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded).- Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.
Grade 3 LS’s: - Science – Understand that living things are diverse, can be grouped and interact with their ecosystems.  Examine the biodiversity I the local environment. Social Studies - Understand the relationships between humans and their environments. Physical Education – Move through defined space while maintaining control (walking blind-folded). Change level of body position while maintaining control. English Language Arts – Demonstrate reading strategies, oral language and metacognitive strategies by asking questions as an aid to understand while listening, or viewing. Demonstrate abilities to follow simple oral instructions.- Interact with others, speak in turn and listen actively, providing verbal and non-verbal responses appropriate to their stages of development and to their cultures.